Help! Vista/7 Bootmgr is compressed

kbsii09v · Apr 4, 2010

I just installed Windows 7 today, from a Virtual Disc on my Vista partition. Everything went through smoothly, there were several restarts that went through, and suddenly "'BOOTMGR' is compressed, Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart."

I've researched a bit and found the solution is to repair the startup using the Vista disc. I have the Vista disc, but my disc drive is broken! I really don't have the money for a new one

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What can I do? I was thinking maybe boot from USB but I don't know how to go about searching on Google for that, let alone doing it.

I have a Windows XP computer that's still functioning w/ a working DVD drive.

Thanks much for help in advance!

Brink · Apr 4, 2010

Hello Kbsii09v, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You could burn the recovery disc to a USB flash drive instead using Step Three in OPTION ONE in the tutorial below.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/141820-create-recovery-disc.html

Afterwards, you can use the tutorial below with the USB recovery drive to fix the compressed bootMGR.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/202609-bootmgr-compressed-message-boot-fix.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Help! Vista/7 Bootmgr is compressed

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